This unique mixture of art criticism and memoir by the Booker Prize–winning author of G. and From A to X is an exploration of the practice of drawing, as well as a meditation on how we perceive the world around us. John Berger's musings on his lifetime of sketching are interspersed with relevant quotations from Spinoza's Ethics, creating a dialogue across the centuries. Front and center here are Berger's 63 ink sketches of his family, the natural world, and scenes from his travels, rendered in a loose, improvisatory style reminiscent of Picasso, Matisse, and Schiele.